# ပူ
## Burmese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pù/
* Romanization: MLCTS: pu • ALA-LC: pū • BGN/PCGN: pu • Okell: pu

### Etymology 1

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given an etymology by STEDT (pu "hot; troubled"). Luce 1981 gives Old Chinese 暴 (OC *boːwɢs, *boːɡ, “to expose to the sun”) as a cognate.”

#### Adjective

ပူ • (pu)
* hot, warm
    Synonym: (more mildly) နွေး (nwe:)
    Antonyms: အေး (e:), ချမ်း (hkyam:)

#### Verb

ပူ • (pu)
* to worry, to be troubled
* to pester, to nag, to bother
* to be worried, to be anxious
    Synonym: ပူပန် (pupan)
* to be plagued with, to be infested with
* to be pressing, to be restive
    ကလေးတစ်ညလုံးပူ... ― ka.le:tacnya.lum:pu... ― the child was restive all through the night...
* to be urgent
* to drill, to bore

#### Derived terms

* ကျောပူခေါင်းပူ (kyau:puhkaung:pu)
* ကြပ်ပူတိုက် (krapputuik)
* ကြွေးပူ (krwe:pu)
* ကိုယ်ပူ (kuiypu)
* ချွဲပူထ (hkywai:puhta.)
* ခေါင်းပူ (hkaung:pu)
* စိတ်ပူ (citpu, verb)
* ဆီးပူညောင်းကျ (hci:pu-nyaung:kya.)
* ဆီပူထိုး (hcipuhtui:)
* ဆူပူ (hcupu)
* တံပူစား (tampuca:)
* ထမင်းရည်ပူစည်း (hta.mang:ranypucany:)
* ထမင်းရည်ပူလာလျှာလွှဲ (hta.mang:ranypulahlyahlwai:)
* ထူပူ (htupu)
* ဓာတ်မီးပူ (dhatmi:pu)
* နှုတ်ပူလက်ကြမ်း (hnutpulakkram:)
* နားပူ (na:pu)
* နားပူတိုက် (na:putuik)
* နားပူနားဆာလုပ် (na:puna:hcalup)
* နားပူသံကျပ်လုပ် (na:pusamkyaplup)
* နေပူ (nepu)
* နေပူခံသီး (nepuhkamsi:)
* နေပူစပ်ခါး (nepucaphka:)
* နေပူဆာ (nepuhca)
* နေပူဆာလှုံ (nepuhcahlum)
* နေပူမိ (nepumi.)
* နေပူလှန်း (nepuhlan:)
* ပူချစ် (puhkyac)
* ပူစပ်ပူလောင် (pucappulaung, adverb)
* ပူစပ်ပူလောင်ဖြစ် (pucappulaunghprac, verb)
* ပူဆွေး (puhcwe:, verb)
* ပူဆာ (puhca, verb)
* ပူညံပူညံ (pu-nyampu-nyam)
* ပူထူသွား (puhtuswa:)
* ပူပင် (pupang)
* ပူပန် (pupan)
* ပူပူနွေးနွေး (pupu-nwe:nwe:)
* ပူပူလောလော (pupulau:lau:, adverb)
* ပူရှိမ်း (puhrim:)
* ပူအိုက် (puuik, verb)
* ဖုတ်ပူမီးတိုက် (hputpumi:tuik)
* မျက်နှာပူ (myakhnapu)
* မြွေပူရာကင်းမှောင့် (mrwepurakang:hmaung.)
* မီးပူ (mi:pu)
* ရင်ပူ (rangpu)
* ရှပ်ပူတိုက် (hrapputuik)
* ရေပူစမ်း (repucam:)
* ရေပူရေချမ်းကမ်း (repurehkyam:kam:)
* လွန်ပူ (lwanpu)
* လေပူ (lepu)
* လောလောပူ (lau:lau:pu)
* သံပူကပ် (sampukap)
* သံပူပေါက် (sampupauk)
* သွေးပူ (swe:pu)
* သွေးပူလေ့ကျင့်ခန်း (swe:pule.kyang.hkan:)
* သူခိုးပူ (suhkui:pu)
* အကြွေးပူ (a.krwe:pu)
* အိုးကင်းပူတိုက် (ui:kang:putuik)
* အုတ်ပူထိုး (utpuhtui:)
* အေးအတူပူအမျှ (e:a.tupua.hmya.)

### Etymology 2

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (pu "bulge in middle"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981. Seems rather sound-symbolic, though whether inherited from an earlier stage or coined within Burmese is unclear.”

#### Verb

ပူ • (pu)
* to bulge in the middle

##### Derived terms

* တံပူ (tampu)
* တဝမ်းပူ (ta.wam:pu)
* တောင်ပူစာ (taungpuca)
* ပိုက်ဝမ်းပူ (puik-wam:pu)
* ပူစည်ဖောင်း (pucanyhpaung:)
* ပူဖောင်း (puhpaung:)

### Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (pu "round basket with cover"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

#### Noun

ပူ • (pu)
* (same as ပူတာ (puta)) cylindrical container with a lid

##### Derived terms

* ပူတာ (puta)

### References

* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (44. Hot; Distress)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 33
* 1 2 3 4 5 “ပူ, 1; ပူ, 2; ပူ, 3; ပူ, 4” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 644.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 “ပူ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

### Further reading

* “ပူ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

## Mon
### Pronunciation

* (Kaw Kyaik, Myanmar) IPA: /pao/
* (Pak Kret District, Thailand) IPA: /pau/

### Etymology 1

Cognate to Nyah Kur [script needed] (puur, “oriental turtle dove (spotted dove?)”).

#### Noun

ပူ (pū)
* dove

##### Derived terms

(Nouns)
* ပူတိ (pū ti)
* ပူပါ (pū pā)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

ပူ (pū)
* to bind cord or cloth round

##### Derived terms

(Verbs)
* ပူကၠေဟ် (pū kleh)
* ပူဒက် (pū dak)
* ပူဗိုက် (pū bək)
* ပူဗိုန် (pū bən)
* ပူလၚေတ် (pū laṅet)

### References

* 1 2 3 Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
* 1 2 3 Sakamoto, Yasuyuki (1994) Mon - Japanese Dictionary‎ (in Japanese), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 599
* ↑ Diffloth, Gérard (1984) The Dvaravati Old Mon languages and Nyah Kur (Monic Language Studies)‎, Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Printing House
* 1 2 Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language: To which are Added a Few Pages of Phrases, &c‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 89
* 1 2 อนุสรณ์ สถานนท์, ร้อยตรี [Anusorn Sathanon, Sub-Lt.] (1984) พจนานุกรม มอญ-ไทย [Mon-Thai Dictionary], page 109; Thai translation of Halliday, R. (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary, Bangkok: Siam Society (2nd ed.: Rangoon: Mon Cultural Section, Ministry of Union Culture, Govt. of the Union of Burma, 1955).
* 1 2 จำปี ซื่อสัตย์ [Champi Suesat] (2007[2008]) “เขา (นก); พัน (วงรอบ)”, in พจนานุกรมไทย-มอญ สำเนียงมอญลพบุรี [Thai-Mon (Lopburi Dialect) Dictionary] (in Thai), ปทุมธานี [Pathum Thani]: วัดจันทน์กะพ้อ [Chan Kapho Temple], pages 28, 157

## Shan
### Etymology

From Proto-Southwestern Tai *puːᴬ¹ (“crab”), from Proto-Tai *pɯwᴬ (“crab”). Cognate with Thai ปู (bpuu), Lao ປູ (pū), Tai Dam ꪜꪴ, Lü ᦔᦴ (ṗuu), Ahom 𑜆𑜥 (pū), Zhuang baeu, Bouyei baul.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puː˨˦/
* Rhymes: -uː

### Noun

ပူ • (pǔu)
* crab